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A87628	A perfect relation of the beginning and continuation of the Irish-rebellion, from May last, to this present 12th. of January, 1641. With the place where, and persons who, did plot, contrive, and put in execution that Romish damnable designe. As also their inhumane cruelties which they have, and still execute, with divellish hatred, upon the Protestants. Written by a worthy gentleman and sent over by a merchant now dwelling in Dublin. Whereunto is annexed the merchants letter who sent the copy of this relation: with another letter wherein is truely related, the battell fought betwixt our English, and the rebels, on the tenth of January at a town called Swords, eight miles from Dublin.	Jones, Henry, 1605-1682.; P. G., Merchant now dwelling in Dublin.	1642 (1642)	Wing J942A; Thomason E131_35; ESTC R9329	8,257	16

a Kingdom For what did or could the last Committee of Parliament crave of his Highnesse for enlargement of their jurisdictions immunities and liberties which was not liberally of his free Grace granted Let the whole World behold and see the free Grace and bounty of a Royall Virtuous and pious King and the disloyall ingratitude and heathenish immanity of a perfidious and Rebellious people who have so Traiterously requited his King-like clemency and benignity For they have not only destroyed and made desolate his Kingdome in two moneths which hath been fourty years implanting since the last civill Wars but they have also robbed him of his Rents Revenues and Customes and part of those Subsidies which themselves had helped to confirm by Act of Parliament and robbed spoiled and murthered many of his Liege-people which should and would have cheerfully payed those Subsidies For they have destroyed all Merchandize and Trade throughout the Realm wherby even many of themselves and their impions faction must of necessity suffer infinitely millions of gold will not countervail the dammage on all sides One thing more in particular touching those of the Pale neer the City of Dublin and the confines is worthy to be related videlicet that when some of them had obtained Arms and Ammunition for 500. men with pretence to resist the Rebels besides those a forementioned for their private defence they returned answer that they could not levy so many men who would fight against the Rebels and therefore they would return the Arms and Ammunition and so did but not to the Castle of Dublin whence they received them but to the Town Droghedath which is now besieged between which and Dublin the s●me men nowly with an Arm●… expecting doubtlesse shortly to have all those Arms again For the best of them who appeared most in getting forth those Armes have since refused to come in upon Proclamation th●y have joyned themselves with the Rebels they have taken the Kings Subjects prisoners they have again r●leased them and given them passes from th● Irish Army coloured with pretended authority in the Kings Name with their own names and a Romish Priests or Fry●rs subscribed Was not this a neat Romish trick Let all these conveyances and occurrences be laid together and then let all the Princes and Nations of Europe judge and censure whether Religion can warrant such fraud and treachery treason and rebellion robbery spoil rapine bloudy cruelty and murders The primitive persecutions were exquisite torments of divers kindes full of tyranny and cruelty but they were short and made a speedy end of life but this new found way of persecution by cold and hunger much more terrible and exceedeth them all because it is a long lingring and languishing torment and so much the more cruell because exercised on women yea women great with childe Infants and Sucklings These tyrants and bloudy minded men certainly are not Kings nor Governours by what authority then exercise they such cruelty upon their fellow Subjects What can they say for themselves if they should answer before their King If they pretend religion though there be a mulct of ninepence each Sabbath upon every person of competent age absenting himself from Divine Service by a Statute Law enacted in the Realm they cannot alledge that it was put in execution or that they had not freedom for their Romish superstitions which to endeavor to convince them of by argument is but folly For their pretended Catholike cause which already appeareth to be the mother of treason and rebellion the sin of witchcraft murder and all other abominations and will shortly appear even to themselves to be the daughter of Antichrist and Antichristianisme must by an inevitable divine decree be convinced by fire and sword Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy name give the glory for thy loving mercy and for thy truths sake For if the Lord himself had not been on our side now may we that survive since the day of discovery of their abominable treason and rebellion say when they rose up against us they had swallowed us up quick th●y were so wrathfully displeased at us Praised be the Lord which hath not given us over as a prey unto their teeth The snare is broken and we are delivered It may be collected that King David in these precedent words of his prophecied of these later times and the Romish persecution For how were the snares broken and we delivered when there was but tenne houres left unrun out from catching us in their snare Meerly by the providence of God as the many formerly mentioned deliverances were It appeareth manifestly that the conspiracy had been long in hatching and contriving with true Romish secrecy For the honest man Owen O-Connely the discoverer being an Irish man but a Protestant as he hath declared to divers of his familiar friends having observed by discourse among the Irish that there was some enterprize in hand prayed for at their Masses in furtherance and good successe of the Catholike cause Although he had dissembled his Religion and frequented their Masses in places remote from his habitation where he was not known could never obtain a true discovery of the particular untill the very evening of the two and twentieth day of October when Hugh Mac-Moghan one of the conspirators intending to expresse his love to Owen O Connely and to rescue him out of the approaching danger and to that end having invited him by Letters and an expresse Messenger to ride with him a long journey to Dublin upon earnest affairs they with the rest being thither come opening his minde to Owen told him what the enterprise was videlicet the surprizall of the Castle of Dublin and Massacre of the Protestants and enjoyned him secrecy and fidelity Owen could do no lesse for his own safeties sake then give consent and promise fidelity and secrecy But withall he diswaded Hugh Mac-Moghan from the enterprize but did not prevail For Hugh Mac-Moghan answered that it was too farre gone he was so deepely engaged that he had vowed perseverance or to that effect If it be so replied Owen let us go on I will do my best or to that effect Notwithstanding his verball consent the good man moved with the fear of God love of his King and Country and commiseration of his fellow Subjects Christians and Protestants whom he well saw and knew were sure to be lost and ruined if the plot succeeded wisely reserving to himself his compunction of heart and loyall affection kept company with the Traytors ahd revelled with them in Taverns untill he had drunk too much but in the end watching his opportunity slipt away from them into one of the Lords Justices houses and discovered unto the Lord Justice the conspiracy to which the Lord Justice gave little credence at first because he perceived that Owen had drunk too much But the vehemency and importunity of Owen moved him to embrace and take the information to heart and immediately it being then late in the night to go to councell with his Peers and to take course for prevention of that wicked and damnable Treason and for apprehension of the conspirators who were eight or nine of them attached within eight or nine houres after a little before the prefixed hour of their intended mischief and the Lord Macguire about the midst of the same day For every particular of the manner of discovery it is not materiall to set out Owen O-Conney best can and hath already told his own tale Herein is given only a brief touch of it whereout may be gathered that the finger of God was in it in framing the heart of Hugh Mac-Moghan towards Owen O-Connely and to discover that to him in the very point of time which he had so busily and industriously long sought after Therefore let glory be given to God the principall discoverer Dated at Dublin the fourth of January 1641. Worthy Sir By the last weeks P●ste I writ unto you certifying you of our lamentable condition craving your favourable advice and charitable helpe in our affairs whereof I doubt not it being Gods cause and our dear Countries for which we all suffer I have herein sent a Letter from a very good friend of mine and kinsman Master Dean Jones of Kilmore who hath miraculously escaped with life Of which I humbly crave the carefull delivery to our worthy K. Attorney As for our affaires in generall or otherwise here is no difference or amendment since my last only I thought meet to write unto you a short relation of our late skirmish On monday night last we sent out a Party of about 2000 foot and 200 horse to a Town called Swords eight myles off where they came about six of the clocke next morning and found the Enemie being a thousand men Intrenched in the Town on whom they shot for the space of halfe an houre and at last brakè in upon the Trenches but found strong opposition But our Division or Party coming another way upon them put them to flight and pursuing them about halfe a myle reterned plundered the Town Our new English Souldiers spared neither man woman or childe therein they got store of good booty among which about 400 Cowes a great part whereof should that morning have been killed for the Rogues breakefast they expecting a supply Our men also tooke four Colours and slew in the Towne and pursuit 179 men besides those the Enemy conveyed away during the fight on horsebacke and otherwise whose number or quality is not yet known The Town also was burnt and great store of Corn unthrashed But alas our victory is nothing if we consider the losse of a brave Spirit on our part Sir Lorenzo Cary brother to the Lord Falkland who with three more were killed in the fight on our part Vntill we have a good supply we are able to do little which God send unto us speedily and preserve us till then and evermore Laus Deo In Dublin Jan. 1641. Your humble and affectionate servant P. G. FINIS

throughout the Realme being confident of the good successe of the Lord Macguire in surprising the Castle and City of Dublin And well they might be confident thereof for the good successe of the Catholike cause was prayed for at their Masses went on with th●ir traiterous and bloudy resolutions and the neighbouring Irish in most Counties slew the neighbouring English Debtors their Creditors Tenants their Landlords some Lords of lands their Tenants Mortgagers their Mortgagees Servants their Masters and severally possessed themselves of their severall lands and goods Money plate jewels apparell housholdstuffe corn and cattell and thrust them that they let live out of doores naked Many great mens servants being Irish ran away from their Masters with their best Horses to the Rebels The Rebels further prosecuting their traiterous and rebellious designes surprised every day more and more of his Highnesse Forts Castles and Towns partly by fraudulent and treacherous insinuation partly by force partly by promises of faire quarter to those his Highnesse Subjects who had upon the noise of the Rebellion betaken themselves thereunto for safegard of themselves and their goods that upon rendition they should carry away bag and baggage Behold all ye that passe by and read this relation how these promises of quarter were performed No sooner came his Majesties subjects out of those Holds but they were all by the Rebells stripped naked some bloodily wounded even to death but left alive languishing their bellies being ripped and guts issuing cast upon dung-hils some butchered and cut into gobbets some men some women hanged yea many hanged or otherwise put to death by them when they returned from some skirmishes with lesse No degree of Laity or of or belonging to the Clergy spared but Ladies Gentlewomen women great with childe yea children very infants and sucklings as well as men all robb'd and stripped naked and exposed to extremity of winde and weather in a cold winter season and forced to lie on the cold earth in the fields in their travell towards Dublin over whom being driven together in Herds and Flocks the Salvages insulted and upbraided them saying Now are ye wilde Irish as well as we and ye may go to Dublin if ye will but ye will finde little succour there for we are sure the Castle and City are taken Whither thousands of them repairing from farre being sore smitten with hunger and cold before they came thither many of them after severall reliefs upon the high way having been thrice stripped by the unmercifull Salvages it is true found but slender succour for indeed it is not there to be had howsoever some particular men have been very bountifull in their Alms and contribution For the one halfe of the City and Suburbs are Papists and will not or dare not relieve a Protestant for fear of Romes curse which is denounced against them if they do relieve Of the other halfe two parts of three are poore and not able to give and halfe a third part are departed with their estates into England for safety insomuch as the distressed poore robbed people dye there on heaps as before they did in the fields upon their travell It is now little more than two moneths since this Rebellion burst out during within and since which time the Traitors and Rebels have so bestirred themselves that they have not left an Englishman subfisting in any part of the Realm except in the Province of Conhaught where they are beholding the goodnesse loyalty ●nd fidelity of the noble Earle of Clenricard and the care and vigilancie of the Right Honourable the President of the same Province for their being And in some parts of the Provinces of Munster and Vlster the first whereof is in part planted with English being the portion of the noble Earle of Corke and the last with Scots being the portion of divers noble and generous Scots who have behaved themselves bravely and stoutly against the Rebels as also some of the English Chiefe●ains have who I doubt not shall reape the due merit of their courage and valour and in some other few fortified Towns Castles and Forts able for a while to defend themselves from the rage and fury of the multitude who have dared to stop up all the high-wayes and passages from Dublin to remote parts thereby to prevent all postage of Letters and messages from the State to any Town City or County Governour Lievetenant or Commander to lay ambushes for his Highn●sse Forces Men Arms and Ammunition and to surprise the Arms and slay the men to rob and spoile all the English within two myles of the City of Dublin and to bring up their forces so neere and to skirmish with his Highnesse Forces they having gotten at least 3000 or 4000 Arms of his Majesties by force or fraud but most by treachery They have dared above a whole moneth to besiege his Majesties Towne of Drogheda both by Sea and Land the same being but twenty miles remote from Dublin insomuch as both Towns are already straightned for victuals Drogheda having had for all that time no market at all and Dublin a very slender and thin market therein appeering now scarcely either pound of fresh butter or cheese Turkey Goose Hen Capon Chick Egge or Pigge or any manner of Sea-foul● and little Fish all which were wont to be very plentifull and at cheape rates It is supposed that most of the Fisher-men are become Rebels The prices of Corn Beife Mutton Veale and Porke are already doubled to that they were at the begining of the Rebellion For in very deed the Rebels have surprised or do detaine from market or are possessed of all the Corn and Cattle almost in the whole Realm At the first and for one moneths space after the Treason and Rebellion brake out it seemed to be none other but such as was plotted stirred and enterprized only by some Male-contented old Irish against the English whose Ancestors and themselves had poss●ssed their Ancestors lands and Revenues and the cause not Romish and universall but it had been possible to have been conceived that if the Castle of Dublin had been surprised the cause would have proved not onely discontent for dis-inheritance but the Catholike Romish cause a Kingdome and a new Cath●like King As soon as those of the vicinity of Dublin Lords knights and Gentlemen of the Pale the old English had by their cautelous insinuations and protestations of loyalty and fidelity to the King and Crowne severally obtained from the Right Honourable the Lords Justices severall Arms and Ammunition out of his Highnesse Store-house in his Castle of Dublin for their pretended private defence against the Rebels and had afterwards declared themselves by laying aside those severall Arms and Ammunition together for a publike offence against our Soveraigne Lord the King his Crowne and dignity to be their confederates Then it apperred manifestly that the cause was not only private discontent of some particular men but Universall Romish and devillish even for